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Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...

Wagner's other brother was also in the Pacific and would write to the family telling them that he was trying to meet up...

Amelia Taylor had trained at Bethesda [Annotator's Note: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda,...

Lloyd Duncan feels that the veterans of World War 2 and Korea received the respect and appreciation they deserved....

The ship Lawson T. Winslow, Jr. was assigned to [Annotator's Note: the USS Monrovia (APA-31)] had seen a lot of combat...

Violet Walsh was born in 1920 in L'anse Au Tigres, or Tiger's Cove, a small settlement between Eunice and Basile in...

Dorothy Wuestner Morgan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September 1922. It was very rural there at that time...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

Ruth Knutson thought World War 2 was “a necessary fun”, and she met her husband because of the war. She would not...

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

Gladys Anderson was born in 1922 in Lisbon, North Dakota and had two brothers and two sisters. Her grandmother gave her...

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

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